"There are now 30 percent more people who are obese than who are undernourished
In the scheme, Yingluck's government paid Thai rice farmers inflated prices for their crops, driving up global rice pricesFile photo shows ousted former Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra arrives at the criminal court in Bangkok, Thailand, Sept 29, 2015
[Photo/Agencies]BANGKOK - Thailand's Supreme Court on Wednesday found former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra guilty of malfeasance in a loss-ridden rice subsidy program and sentenced her in absentia to five years in jailYingluck did not show up at the court and has so far not made any public comment on the verdictIn an announcement released by the court, it read that even though the unmilled rice program was an act according to government policy that the cabinet had stated to the National Assembly, if the implementation of such policy was not in accordance with law, such acts could be inspected by the judicial process
Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha said on Tuesday that he knows where the ousted former prime minister is but will not disclose her whereabouts until the verdict is deliveredAfter a trial running over two years, the Supreme Court's Criminal Division for Holders of Political Positions began reading the verdict at 11 am local time and continued for nearly four hours
The subsidy scheme did not work, costing the country 8 billion US dollars and leaving it with vast stockpiles of rice
It was reported that she had fled to Dubai where her brother, former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, lives in self-imposed exile avoiding a 2008 sentence for corruptionXinhua Liu Yunshan, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, and Samdech Techo Hun Sen, Cambodian prime minister, attend a ceremony where several bilateral cooperative agreements were signed on Wednesday in Phnom Penh
Cambodia will work with China to push forward their bilateral comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership for more development, while maintaining mutual support on each other's issues of crucial concern, Hun Sen saidHun Sen thanked Liu for the visit ahead of the 19th CPC National Congress, saying it shows China's great attention to the development of Cambodia-China relations
Liu Yunshan, a senior Communist Party of China official, met on Wednesday with Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen in Phnom Penh, and they agreed to cement bilateral cooperation and party-to-party exchangesThe ties between the CPC and the ruling Cambodian People's Party, whose president is Hun Sen, play a leading role in state-to-state ties, said Liu, expecting the two parties to maintain high-level contacts, learn from each other on party rule and state governance, and deepen exchanges to drive party-to-party ties to a new high
